Ping ([info]zestyping) wrote,
@ 2006-06-06 03:46:00
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Current mood: flabbergasted

Vista: Are you sure? Are you sure? Are you sure? Are you sure? Are you sure?
It's even worse than i thought. This is really insane: you have to answer five confirmation prompts to delete a shortcut in Windows Vista.



The dialogs say, in order:

  1. Are you sure you want to move this shortcut to the Recycle Bin?
  2. Do you want to permanently delete it?
  3. You don't currently have permission to delete this file.
  4. Windows needs your permission to use this program
  5. Are you sure you want to permanently delete '[the filename]'?
This is supposed to help how?

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[info]flipzagging
2006-06-06 01:58 pm UTC (link)
This is supposed to help how?

Bill told his security team "I want our users to be using the most secure operating system," so they're trying to force them off Windows.

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[info]istgut
2006-06-06 03:30 pm UTC (link)
That's a little unfair. The icon in question is clearly a system file of sorts (windows beta client), akin to deleting the "My Computer" icon. To claim that you have to do this "every time you delete a shortcut" is misleading. It'd like to see the process for a more trivial icon --- the kind you might actually delete on a regular basis.

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Isn't a shortcut a shortcut?
[info]rainbowsorbet
2006-06-06 05:44 pm UTC (link)
The icon is actually a shortcut to Microsoft Beta client. Aren't shortcuts pretty disposable, no matter what they point to? I mean, it wouldn't affect the original item to delete a shortcut, right?

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[info]eigenvalue
2006-06-06 06:34 pm UTC (link)
Does this happen under default factory settings?

Is there, like, a "non-anal mode"?

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It's not too different than XP
(Anonymous)
2006-06-07 05:03 am UTC (link)
Under XP if you try to delete a shortcut that points to an unused file it shows a dialog telling you the shortcut points to an unexistant file and asking you to browse for a target. This dialog shows up twice, and then you are asked to delete the file.
They're just adding 2 more dialogs :-)

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Re: It's not too different than XP
(Anonymous)
2007-04-27 12:20 pm UTC (link)
pfffffffft it doesn't do ask u to browse for a file when u delete a shortcut pointing to a nonexisting file pffffffffffffft

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(Anonymous)
2007-08-02 04:59 pm UTC (link)
MY computer don't ask me this:
Are you sure you want to move this shortcut to the Recycle Bin?
But the other for steps are obligatory.
http://www.yourrecyclebin.com/

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